Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lazare Saminsky emigrated to the U. S. in 1920 because he was sick of "people flying at each other's throats." In 1923 he married young Lillian Morgan, a poet proud of her descent from the Colonial Cranes. Composer Saminsky was re-excited about the redskin when he saw The Covered Wagon and read Natalie Curtis' Indian translations. He planned to write Pueblo for several years, did so last summer...
When Allen Tate, critic and poet, had written most of a long-planned life of Robert E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman's four-volume, definitive R. E. Lee (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935) appeared, blew his house down before the roof was on. Last week the same meteorological hard luck seemed to be pursuing Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). For her Civil War novel came out in the wake of that typhoon of bestsellers, Gone With the Wind. Whether None Shall Look Back could weather the vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum...
Parts of Dr. Simmon's biography are very dramatic. His account of the duel between Pushkin and Baron d' Anthes, as a result of which the poet died, take on the attributes of a tragic drama. One can almost visualize a Hollywood movie version of Pushkin's life. For the life, in general, partook of melodrama: the protagonist was descended of an aristocratic family on his father's side while his mother was the lineal descendant of an Ethiopian prince, whom Peter the Great had acquired from the Sultan of Turkey. It was a far cry from the Sublime Porte...
...regrets that Dr. Simmons has paid so much attention to the facts of Pushkin's life that he has devoted little space to detailed criticism of the poet's works, but emphasis had to fall somewhere, and since ignorance of the man Pushkin is so great in England and America, it is high time that we learn about him. Dr. Simmons teaches us gracefully in this centenary year of Pushkin's death...
...this project, tries to dissuade her daughter, Ellen confounds her by bringing up an amorous episode from Mrs. Murray's past, discovered while Ellen was researching a thesis at college, and by the further discovery that the amiable house guest of the moment (Nicholas Joy) is the poet who wrote the book in which the episode was revealed...